What 'decent' Milling machine?

[Chaz]

The machines at Amadeal with spindle taper R8, big No for that money.

If i want to buy me a serious mill i will look for used VMC, at least buy Bridgeport and definitely stay away from small mills with funny tapers and unknown Chinese stuff.

You need at least BT30, ideally 40iso holder for a serious machine.

Thanks. I did see a few bridgeports. What do you think of the 2 Denfords I linked?

[Boyan Silyavski]

Thanks. I did see a few bridgeports. What do you think of the 2 Denfords I linked?

Depends. Small machines are way overpriced compared to used "real" machine. Cause people are lazy to organize moving or installing 3 phase at home, or fiddli8ng with VFD or just make small parts and don't have space.

I still don't have a mill but from looking of what motorcycle parts people order to my friend Jeff, i dont see that machine capable of doing them. Fork yokes for example. As i said stay away from small machines.
Man, my mill vice is as big as this machine if you know what i mean. You can not fit a good vice, the part and the bit on something so small. Not to speak of tilting vice.

You need a good used machine that comes with some stuff like holders, vice/es/ and if you are listening to me- that comes with servos. Yes its a good thing to retrofit steppers, no problems, but machine that comes with steppers is an amateur machine.

Cause you will hit the floor when you hear the prices of a good vice, good 4rth axis and so on if you want to buy them separately. And if you manage to find a good machine and retrofit only the electronics / something like CSMIO/ IP A / you could have a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlQgMk6te_Y so you spend wisely you 10k